Today is my blog’s anniversary (happy birthday blog!) and, by coincidence, the official release date of the German translation of my book, How to Think Like a Mathematician although I believe it’s been available for at least a month now. It’s called Wie man mathematisch denkt which I think translates more or less as “How one thinks mathematically”. It’s published by Springer no less and you can buy it on Amazon.de. My thanks to the translator, Roland Girgensohn, who put a lot of effort into making sure that the translation was...

The story of the A Hard Day’s Night Chord appeared in numerous papers since my talk with Rob Sturman and Ben Sparks at the British Science Festival. I was also asked to appear on BBC Radio Merseyside which you can hear at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xn5jh for the next 6 days if you are in a territory where iPlayer programmes are available. Start at about...

I’m giving a talk at the British Science Festival on Saturday. Details are here. To accompany it I’ve made a video on how mathematics can be used to analyze the opening chord of A Hard Day’s Night by the Beatles.